Robert Hill, plt., v. the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Chester, defts., at Chester...

The plaintiff is in possession of an estate called Bache Hall and claims that the Corporation has polluted Flookers Brook, which flows through his property, by discharging a sewer into it.

a. Brief for the defendants. Includes information about the state of the City's sewers and open drains prior to the improvements of 1834 and about present sewers, information about the diversion of Flookers Brook when the railway station was erected in 1848-9, and about the Gas Works. Evidence of various persons, including Robert Roberts, builder, who built many of the houses in New Town. He first began to build there c.1816, when only about three houses had been built there. 47ff.

b. Copy of resolutions of Town Council and Improvement Committee and of correspondence 2 copies 12ff. and 13ff.

c. Copies of pleas and draft instructions for pleas. 8ff.

d. 3 copies of the declaration. 12ff.

e. 14 April, 1851. Letter from ?Brett, from Liverpool, to J. Finchett Maddock, acknowledging payment for professional services to Chester Corporation. 2ff.

Attached:- 8 receipts from witnesses for payment for attending the trial. 8ff.

f. Copy of demand of admissions and notices to produce documents. 3ff.

g. Defendants' bill of costs, 1850-1. The Town Council debtor to J. Finchett Maddock. 4ff.

h. Copy of a. 47ff.

i. 1853. Bill of plaintiff's costs and damages, Trinity Term 1850 - Easter, 1851. Receipted by Gregory Faulkener & Co. 17ff.

Also: 8 Oct., 1853. Letter from John Philpot to J.F. Maddock. from Russell Square, enclosing same. 2ff.

Note: a-h found together in one bundle: i from débris